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- No. 254,163.. Patented Feb. 28,1882,

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CHARLES v. ROTE, oELA'NeASrER, PENNSYLVANIA.

STAY-BOLTCUTTER.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,163, dated February 28, 1882,

Application filed November 15, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES V. Ro'rE, a citizen of the United States, yresiding at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Stay-Bolt Gutters, of which the following is a specication.

Myinvention relates to machines for cutting off stay-bolts when in the sheet; and the object Vof .my improvement is to cut oft'- the bolt without injury to the thread thereof', so ,that it is left .in condition to be again screwed into a bolt-hole'without. any recuttin g. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side view ot' the cutter; Fig. 2, a vertical view of the die and die-box, with the covering-plate removed, for holding` the instrument steadily in place while cutting a bolt; Fig.` 3, a section through the cylinder and throat of the'device, as seen in Fig. l 5 Fig. 4,'a view of the walking-beam, by means of which the cutting-tool is applied to the bolt; and Fig. 5 is a view of the blade of the tool.

The body of my cutter is composed ot' a cylinder,`G, having the bosses B and B7, and a neck, N, in front. Fitting into the cylinderis a sleeve, A, with a groove, G, for receiving the cylindrical ends c of the handles H and H', and with a collar, o, resting against the end of the cylinder. rlhrough the center ofthe sleeve and neck ofthe cylinder there is a cylindrical opening for receiving the bolt D to be cut. Attached to theouter end of the sleeve is a box, b, the inner side of which is open and lits over the opening for receiving the bolt,the outer or rear side being covered with a plate, p, with an opening similar and opposite to that in the sleeve. The plate is secured to the box and the box to the sleeve by means of screws Working through lugs l in Said plate and box.

handles H and H. These handles have plain cylindrical projections e beyond the screws, with a teat, t, as shown in Fig. 3, which projections exactly iit the groove G in the sleeve, the teats fitting into sockets z in the bottomof said groove. These tea-ts may beused upon the ends of bothahandles, as shown; but generally one on the end of the handle H Willbefound suicient, preventing the' movement of i the body of the cutterabout the sleeve when resting in the sockets z. The objectin thus rendering the sleeve A immovable within the cylinder C is to facilitate the passage of the bolt through the cutter in getting said cut-ter to the point at which the'bolt is to be cut, the-opening through the sleeve littin g the bolt somewhat closely, for the purpose hereinafter stated.

The handle H has two collars, c and c, between which Work the bossed ends g of a yoke, y, of the walking-beam W, which ends embrace the stem of the said handle, the walkingbeam itself being centered in a yoke, y', ofthe post 0, the lower end of which post is pivoted at on in a recess in the boss B.Y The other or front end ot the walking-beam `also has a yoke, y, which embraces the outer end of a tool, T. The tool is secured in the lyokoy by pointed set-screws s, and works through the opening a in the boss B into the cylindrical openingthrough the neck N, Where the blade r operates. on the bolt to be cut. Above, below, and at the side opposite that entered by theftool there are openings Vin therneck, which permit the escape of cuttings from the bolt. The front end of the neck is covered by a steel plate, p, having a nose, a, which is secured to theY same by means of screws with countersunk heads.

In using my invention the dies d and d are J opened, the handles are screwed intothe bosses until the ends set against the bottom of thegroove G, as shown by thehandleH in Fig. 3, and the teat t lits into its corresponding socket z in the same. By this movement of the handle H, operating by means of the Walking-beam, the tool is freed from the cyl.- inder which receives the bolt D, and the cylinder C is prevented from turning about the sleeve by the teat t. The bolt is then pushed through the cutter, being inserted through the opening iu the box b. After the bolt has been IOO xed in place in the sheet S the nose n' of the cutter is pushed flat against it, and the dies are closed upon the bolt by means of the thumb-screws s, and embraceit so firmly as to prevent any movement of the same in or through the box and the sleeve A, to which it is attached. The handle H, or both H and H', if the latter has a teat at its inner end, is screwed outward until the teat t is freed from its socket z, allowing the cutter to turn freely about the sleeve and the bolt which it holds. This movement of the handle H forces the blade i' of the tool 'ldown upon the bolt, when the cutter is revolved by means of both han dies. As each complete circle is made, II, which has its outer end milled in order to strengthen the grip, is screwed farther out, thus keeping the blade to the bolt and causing itto cut deeper and deeper. The relative length of the cylindrical projection c at the end of the handles and the tool T is such that the cutting is completed before the said projection e clears the groove G of the sleeve. Upon finishing the cutting, the blade is withdrawn by screwing the handle in again, and, after the main bolt is detached from that in the sheeting, the cutter is set for further work. The sides ot' the blade i' are concave, so as to allow it to be freely withdrawn from its cut in the bolt.

The opening through the sleeve A for receiving the bolt is sufficiently tight to serve as a guide to direct the bolt to the opening in the nose n', which latter is small enough to prevent any vibration of the cutter ou the bolt at the nose, while the' diameter of the opening through the neck is considerably larger than that of the bolt.

I would call attention to the facts, tirst, that the opening which allows the passage of the bolt through the neck N is larger than the bolt, thus avoiding any pressure upon the thread of the screw inside of the blade 1', so that after the cutting the screw is ready to enter a bolthole without any further preparation 5 second, that at the points at which the bolt and instrument are held in place while the former is being cut there is no injury caused to any part of the thread of the bolt to be again screwed through the sheeting, as one of these is the sheeting itself', where the bolt has already been screwed in, and where the part of the same pressed upon by the nose of the cutter between the sheeting and the blade is used to form a bolt-head, and as the other is the dies with female screws, which exactly tit the thread of the bolt; third, that the arrangement of the flanged sleeve with the box and dies and the main cylinder with its handles forms its own baekin g for holding the nose of the instrument immovable against the sheeting while cutting the bolt; and, fourth, that the securing such immobility causes the cut made by the blade to be perfectly square and clean, leaving the bolt-thread at the cut unmarred and ready for further use without additional preparation.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a bolt-cutter, the combination of the cylinder C, having bosses B and B', handles H and H', with cylindrical ends e, and the sleeve A, having the groove G, by which the said sleeve is held in the cylinder when the cutter is not being operated, substantially as herein set forth.

2. In a bolt-cutter, the combination of the cylinder C, having bosses B B', handles yH and H', with cylindrical ends c and teats t, and the sleeve A, having the groove G and sockets z, whereby the sleeve can be prevented from revolving within the cylinder, substantially as herein specified.

3. In a bolt-cutter, the combination ot' the cylinder C, having bosses B and B', handles H and H', with cylindrical ends c, the sleeve A, having a groove, G, andthe box b, provided with the dies d and d' and thumb-screws s, whereby part of the cutter remains stationary,holdingthewholein place while the other revolves in cutting a bolt, substantially as herein set forth.

4. The combination, in a bolt-cutter, of the sleeve A, having the box b, with dies d and d v IOO tached thereto the box b, with the diesel and d' and screws s, the cylinderC,with the bosses B and B' and neck N, handles H and H', with projections and teats, walking-beam W, and tool T, with blade i, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

CHARLES V. ROTE.

Witnesses:

W. B. WILEY, G. A. LANE.

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